May 4, 2007, Newsletter Issue #166: Customs & Bridal Showers

Tip of the Week

Do you know the tradition and customs behind bachelor parties and bridal showers? For those who like to know, here is a little history lesson.

The bachelor party dates back to the times in Ancient Sparta. Sparta was a city-state in Ancient Greece. At the time the bachelor party was considered the future groom’s last chance to gather money for his future by gambling. After the marriage took place, his wife would take over the finances. Since she ran the home, she also controlled the purse strings.

Bridal showers actually got their start not from celebrating the woman’s betrothal, but because a woman’s father disapproved of the daughter’s choice in husbands. If a father did not give his blessing to the marriage, he did not have to provide a dowry for his daughter’s future marriage. Bridal showers took the place of the dowry in order to provide the bride with household items and supplies to seed her future marriage home with. Our modern concept of the bridal shower did not begin until after the late 1890’s.

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